The second time around, President Donald Trump is upending established news media conventions. Representatives of right-wing outlets are called on to ask questions at White House briefings while mainstream reporters Trump has called the “enemy of the American people” are ignored.
“President Trump is Protecting America’s Children,” says a White House statement on efforts to halt transgender treatments for minors. Meanwhile, Trump’s drastic cuts to federal programs represent a “war on children,” says a 2,100-word report from ProPublica.
The Center for Baptist Leadership is urging Baptist pastors, Focus on the Family, Compassion International and other groups to publicly oppose a Colorado bill that would penalize parents and others who “deadname” children by not using their preferred pronouns.
The trial is the latest chapter in the long-running saga of dozens of slow-moving defamation cases filed against conservative outlets and Christian influencers who embraced Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election and falsely blamed voting technology companies for effecting the steal.
Evangelicals largely supported “environmental stewardship” of God’s creation during the 1970s and 1980s. But as the Christian right grew closer to the GOP, it embraced the party’s pro-energy policies and turned its back on environmental stewardship.
Ellis remains an evangelical, a conservative, a Republican and a Trump supporter. She says she’s “really impressed” by what Trump is doing in his second administration.
Evangelicals were essential in reelecting Donald Trump. Now, his sudden and drastic cuts to aid programs are forcing some evangelical nonprofits to end work and fire personnel, while Focus on the Family and other conservative groups praise the aid cuts and deny any harm is being done.
As President Donald Trump ushers in unprecedented (and possibly illegal) changes in presidential power and the federal government, his actions have been “welcomed and celebrated by those in the pro-life” and “pro-family” movement, says a Family Research Council article titled “Trump’s First Week Just the Beginning of the ‘Clean-up Process’ of ‘Anti-Family Provisions.’”
Shen Yun Performing Arts, the traveling dance troupe behind elaborate performances that show “China before Communism,” has been sued by a former dancer and is also being investigated over its allegedly abusive child labor practices, which were reported by The New York Times in August. This week, it was reported to be under federal investigation for visa fraud.
Politically conservative “pro-family” groups ended 2024 by calling to stamp out the “transgender cult,” opposing constitutional rights for Satanists, promoting Melania Trump’s parenting advice, warning against sympathy for immigrants, and celebrating Donald Trump’s second election as a source of spiritual revival.
